Jameela Jamil is speaking her mind.
The 37-year-old She-Hulk star is voicing her opinion and taking a stand against last Monday’s Met Gala 2023.
If you can recall, after the Met Gala theme for 2023 was announced last year, Jameela explained why she had taken issue with the choice to honor late designer Karl Lagerfeld. The designer passed away in February 2019.
Though she acknowledged at the time that he was “supremely talented,” she also called out the fact that he used “his platform [in] such a distinctly hateful way, mostly towards women, so repeatedly and up until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, offering no atonement, no apology, no help to groups he attacked.”
Now, Jameela has issued a new statement. Just hours after the gala took place on Monday (May 1), she slammed the theme anew. In a statement on her Instagram read, she said:
“Last night, Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors. And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.
Suddenly your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone. Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ we had a year to course correct here, and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot…and everyone just decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when *convenient*. And it’s one rule for us, and another rule for everybody else. Last night we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important.”
Jameela added in the caption of her post:
“This isn’t about cancel culture. Its not even about Karl. It’s about showing how selective cancel culture is within liberal politics, in the most blatant way so far. It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like this. And it’s not just Hollywood here, the general public online participated and were entirely complicit in the erasure of the truth last night. They replaced their pitchforks with spoons last night, to lap that sh-t right up…If we carry on like this, don’t be shocked when we lose the next election.”
